My internal name for this is "conjunction penalty". At some point in the last year I learned to penalize conjunctions and favor disjunctions in real life. For example, to stop being afraid of an imagined worst case scenario, I count the number of independent things that need to go wrong, roughly estimate the probability of each, multiply them, and end up with a comfortably small number. Also it feels very nice to carry out plans that depend on disjunctions of favorable events, because such plans work much more often than I intuitively expect.

Any idea how long it will take to select applicants?

I'm going to a conference the entire second weekend of the mini-camp. I will cancel the conference without hesitation if I am accepted, but since that is only a month away I need to know asap to try get my money back for the conference, plus I need to book my flight soon.

What's more, LW members already have the option to put website links in their profiles, and the websites authored or endorsed by prominent LW contributors are thus already given significant promotion.

It's not that significant. I watch my site traffic like a hawk and I get almost no hits from here.

On the name issue, Steve Yegge has a great story about people mis-spelling his name. Scroll down to "You know how sometimes they lose your file?" (or just read the whole thing, because it's all pretty good).

I am volunteering to be considered. I don't know anything about engineering jobs, and I've moved a few times, but not a ton. I'm good at organizey stuff, and I know a little about low-cost living strategies which make "getting a proper job" less urgent when you move. I have had several positive tribe experiences, as well as some negative ones. I don't currently live near a LW meetup.

I'd expect that there are other people better qualified than I to help, but I am willing, and so I wanted to give you the option in case for whatever reason no one better volunteers.

In any case, I wish Andrew the best of luck in finding a tribe!

There's precedent for making changes with this effect. It used to be that you could vote on (and would automatically vote up) your own comments, and those points did not evaporate when new comments started to appear at 0 karma without the option for the poster to vote on them.

Making upvotes a limited resource means that there will be fewer upvotes in total, and slower karma gains, and thus each point of karma that one gets will be more meaningful, and a stronger incentive to 'do more like that'.

Kind of like how if you have an income of $10,000/week, $1 doesn't mean much, but if your income is more along the lines of $500/week, $1 is much more significant.

I eagerly await further posts in this sequence! I would love to see more, either front page or discussion is fine because I read both, but it seems more of a front-page effort. I wish I could up-vote more than once.

It may be that you are incapable of functioning well around women right now, but don't you want to do better?

Sure, if I didn't have to give up something else. But perhaps it's a matter of picking and choosing one's battles.

I have the same feeling.

The only caveat I have with skipping pages is that it's a slippery slope. I sometimes feel if I let myself skip the boring parts, I'll gradually start skipping more and more until all I read are the funny anecdotes. This is definitely true of any book I'm reading because I have to (say, for school), less so for books I genuinely enjoy.